Codecademy

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User Rating: 3.0/5

Free Online Courses

Codecademy is a clever, fun website that helps with learning coding online for free and from home while building a project! It’s interactive, fun, and you can do it with your friends, forming groups to code together. You can even show your progress through the points and badges that you earn. Codecademy is one of the best and most user-friendly coding tutorial websites out there, which never turns into a chore. We have used for learning HTML, CSS and Javascript and and we loved it!

Large amount of things to learn, from different web language skills, projects and APIs

Progress bars on each course, so you can see how well you’re doing

Coding mistakes are highlighted on the site, so that you can see why what you’ve done is wrong, and learn how to fix it

Site Cons

No certificates, verified or otherwise, for completing courses

Many recommend Codeacademy in conjunction with other, more typical, code learning programs- users would struggle to become experts with just Codeacademy

Some users complain that the basic rules of computer programming language aren’t properly explained– users are told what to do, but not why that should work

Lessons vary in quality depending on the creator

Other Tips

The site forums are a great place to go if you have a problem or question on one of the courses- and with over a million members, there’ll probably be someone there that can help you

Overview

Codecademy is a fantastic place to begin learning web code, and to find computer courses online. Filled with fun activities, useful information, and handy tips and lessons for brand new coders, Codecademy is a great place to start off with web coding, or touch up on the skills you already have.

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